I replied earlier to Cristina, regarding :
Upright Pianists, Children of a Lesser God?
and I forgot to ask her one thing.
I will take advantage of this section and, since I am here, I would like to expand my request by directing it also to the Others.
If you remember, after Cristina's initial greeting, while chatting about this and that, she spoke to us about the Steel Pan and proposed a video of its construction, and then Camy86 showed us Jaco Pastorius's instrumentalist...(now we are talking about the relationship of Jazz with unusual instruments, I said, instead, everything stopped).
Or, do you all remember Pasquale and his story about the structure of organs? (now someone will give us a review of organs or sacred music, I rejoiced, but here too something stopped)
Or, again, do you watch the videos by PianoExpert or TheSimon? (for example, I imagine the first would like someone to tell him about how he builds harpsichords, and the second about how he creates a Remix)
Or the nonsense that I propose? (I imagine you all have an author, a singer-songwriter, music that you adore).
Or ..................................... (FrancescodiParigi, etc.,etc.)
Well, I forgot to take the opportunity to ask Cristina to come back and talk to us about the wonderful and unique music of her people and to tell us what she feels or remembers when she sings and plays her Music.
Well, I say, we are all searching for answers, but we are also all simultaneously possessors of knowledge or interests that are answers to the questions of others, even those not yet formulated or posted.
I don't think it is necessary to have high levels of knowledge to give useful contributions, if we share the idea that knowledge is the result of a collective effort and not of elites; if we believe that this is not a space where to be judged more or less skilled, but rather a space for meeting.
Spreading or sharing knowledge is different from synthesizing it, something for which - I agree - requires talents, gifts, and skills that not everyone has.
Just to give an example, each of us loves the songs of our own region and, in this field alone, if we talk about folk singing and dancing, who knows how many contributions can be made, from proposing music to telling its story, to discussing it!
In short, mine is intended to be an invitation to Everyone to be less shy, to not feel only like "users"(that is, consumers) of the site, but also - and above all - authors".
Only if we do this, the site will truly become "ours" and we can say that we are a group.
Go ahead, please, bring on the criticisms and the barrages against my idea or, if it does not appear to you to be a terrible infamy, with the expected contributions (at most preceded by a preliminary discussion to organize yourselves)!
A fraternal greeting to All
